Susanne asked me about fairies! :)

[wombat146]

@Su_Sanne Susanne left a kind comment on a layout of mine in the gallery and asked ..............."There are probably a few fairies in your garden, right?"

My answer: "Umm, yes, a few! lol!"


Here they are, fairies, nymphs riding swans and rabbits, and another group of them making music next to the pumpkin house. There is the old man in the potting shed that keeps the fairies in there entertained with his stories. No pics but there are two gnomes that lurk among the plants, I inherited them and they are okay and not too noisy! A mother and baby sleeping in the garden, and little one sitting on a mushroom. The fairy made of wire now lives beside the large bowl of water in the garden where the birds pop down to have a swim in summer, she likes it out there as she can keep her hair wet (no idea why she would like that though!). The blue winged fairies live in the potting shed with the green and white fairies, and the sandy coloured one. Hope you enjoy them!

Does anyone else have any fairies (or other little characters) in the garden??? Please come and share them, I would love to see them!

 

[faerywings]

I do! I have a gargoyle named Wolfgang who shows up in a bunch of my scrap pages. I also have a couple of dragons-- In fact, I said to Gary yesterday that it was time to bring Theo, my baby dragon, outside. She also has been in a couple of LOs.
When my kids were little we built several faery houses in the yard.

Ona, you already know how much I love your magical friends ♥

 

[A-M]

I would love to find a layout I did about the fairy garden we had at our last home. Maybe I might do some digging and see if I can find it.

 

[faerywings]

Here is Theo:

and one of Wolfgang

 

[MariJ]

Oh, I loved seeing these! Your fairies are lovely and look like wonderful company. In 2017 I made a huge fairy garden on the incline next to my steps as I was mourning the loss of a dear friend. It all started when I was making a layout about fairies, looked up a quote and saw references to "fairy gardens". I was entranced so bought a few pieces. It was soothing to work in the dirt clearing space and planting flowers as the fairies and I built spaces for them to live. The fairy village got bigger each year as I received pieces as gifts and my friend's husband even sent pieces from Australia and started a small garden of his own. My little neighbors loved coming to visit and during Covid lockdown I put a sign at the end of the driveway for kids to come visit the fairies and they did, it was heartwarming. Sadly in 2022 many of the fairies somehow got lost after a water incident and I've never been able to find them again so for the past few years the fairy garden has been much smaller and it makes me sad to think of the lost friends. And, even though my friend never saw the garden I've always thought of it as a part of her.
Here's the Garden in spring 2021 before the greenery started to grow big.
I'll be back with more photos!

 

[MariJ]

This is the first part of my village, the ladybugs and angel came from Australia. I always thought of the angel as my friend Jody.
The next is my little neighbors looking at the pieces they gave me at Christmas.
Then the swimming and pond areas.

 

[Su_Sanne]

@Su_Sanne Susanne left a kind comment on a layout of mine in the gallery and asked ..............."There are probably a few fairies in your garden, right?"

My answer: "Umm, yes, a few! lol!"
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Here they are, fairies, nymphs riding swans and rabbits, and another group of them making music next to the pumpkin house. There is the old man in the potting shed that keeps the fairies in there entertained with his stories. No pics but there are two dwarfs that lurk among the plants, I inherited them and they are okay and not too noisy! A mother and baby sleeping in the garden, and little one sitting on a mushroom. The fairy made of wire now lives beside the large bowl of water in the garden where the birds pop down to have a swim in summer, she likes it out there as she can keep her hair wet (no idea why she would like that though!). The blue winged fairies live in the potting shed with the green and white fairies, and the sandy coloured one. Hope you enjoy them!

Does anyone else have any fairies (or other little characters) in the garden??? Please come and share them, I would love to see them!

Oh, Ona!!!
As if I didn't know!
It's simply magical! I wish I could meet your magical creatures! They enrich every garden and live among us with their Beauty and magic.

Here is a little impression from my garden. The fairy princess Annike, top left, and her best friend Adrian button left are the youngest settlers in my garden. They are still a bit shy. But at night I see them scurrying around the garden as they inspect and repair the little bird's nests. Or they help the frogs through difficult terrain to the next pond.
I'll introduce you to more of my Garden friends shortly. I'm packing, we're going on vacation.

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[MariJ]

Theo and Wolfgang are wonderful and look like they bring fun to your garden. Your pages are lovely too! @faerywings

 

[faerywings]

I LOOOOOOVE this thread!!!!

 

[Su_Sanne]

This is the first part of my village, the ladybugs and angel came from Australia. I always thought of the angel as my friend Jody.
The next is my little neighbors looking at the pieces they gave me at Christmas.
Then the swimming and pond areas.
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This is so lovely! I love the hidden places with the little boat and a pond. How beautiful the fairy land must have been for the little children! A great place to develop children's imagination.

 

[MariJ]

Lastly here is one of my Fairy Garden layouts. This one was during the Pandemic and you can see the sign I had at the end of the driveway. With nothing else to do but take neighborhood walks, it gave me great joy to sees little ones and their families enjoying the fairies.

 

[MariJ]

I LOOOOOOVE this thread!!!!

Me too!

 

[MariJ]

Oh, Ona!!!
As if I didn't know!
It's simply magical! I wish I could meet your magical creatures! They enrich every garden and live among us with their Beauty and magic.

Here is a little impression from my garden. The fairy princess Annike, top left, and her best friend Adrian button left are the youngest settlers in my garden. They are still a bit shy. But at night I see them scurrying around the garden as they inspect and repair the little bird's nests. Or they help the frogs through difficult terrain to the next pond.
I'll introduce you to more of my Garden friends shortly. I'm packing, we're going on vacation.

Your page is really lovely and I really like your enchanted garden and all its inhabitants. It's nice hearing about their antics.
Wishing you a fun and safe vacation.

 

[wombat146]

oh ladies I am loving these pictures!!!!!!! your gardens are all so GORGEOUS!!!

@faerywings I love your dragons Chris!!! I had some at the old place but I couldn't bring everything down with me so some of them now live at daughter-in-laws and some at my friend's daughter's place.

@MariJ Marilyn, what a beautiful garden you made! wow! how sad that some of the fairies disappeared but you never know, they could have been washed into someone else's place and are now helping their plants to grow. What a lovely idea to open the garden to little ones to come and see them, so very sweet!

I remember when my eldest grandson was around four years old, he came to stay with us one weekend. We were still building our house then and lived in a caravan but I had started my garden in the bush. In a secret little spot in the garden I had made a small pond and around it I had some wizards and dragons move in. On the night that Brodie was there, he stayed inside and went out and lit some little tea light candles around the dragon and wizard and then came back and told Brodie, in amazement, that I had just seen a dragon! We walked along the little track through the bush by torchlight with Pop carrying Brodie. When we rounded a big boulder there was the little candle lit scene in front of him, I will never forget the look of wonder on his face! After a couple of minutes he whispered "Grandma, can I touch the dragon?" and when I said yes, he very cautiously walked over and patted the stone dragon on the head! lol!

Brodie turned 27 today and earlier this year when I chatting to him on the phone, I asked whether he remembered seeing the dragon and straight away he said "Yes! I do remember that! I think about it now and it was like a dream, patting the dragon with the lights around me and stars above me." I got all teary when he said that! lol! What beautiful memory we made for him! I will look through my photos tomorrow and find them, some of them haven't even been scanned so it's something I do want to do!

@Su_Sanne Oh my, what a lovely garden!! I also love the stories you have written about them as well. It's so lovely to have a place to just go and rest and imagine all sorts of things!!! Hope you have a great holiday!!!

 

[Su_Sanne]

Lastly here is one of my Fairy Garden layouts. This one was during the Pandemic and you can see the sign I had at the end of the driveway. With nothing else to do but take neighborhood walks, it gave me great joy to sees little ones and their families enjoying the fairies.
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You bridged this difficult time creatively and positively and created something so beautiful! You brought joy to the neighbors passing by. A great place not just for fairies and goblins!

 

[LauraD]

I don't. . . .YET! But thank you for the inspiration! I may have to go get some Beautiful gardens!

 

[A-M]

@MariJ Marilyn, I was thinking of you the other day with your lovely fairly garden when I worked in the Craft Store and an older woman bought fairy garden pieces that one of our artists makes. I asked was it for her grandchildren and she said "no", it was for herself as the grandchildren had taken her pieces home with them so she needed to replace things.

 

[JeanneMN]

This is the first part of my village, the ladybugs and angel came from Australia. I always thought of the angel as my friend Jody.
The next is my little neighbors looking at the pieces they gave me at Christmas.
Then the swimming and pond areas.
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What a great way to honor your friend and deal with your grief. Wonderful story, other than fairies disappearing, maybe they took some of your garden magic to Jody?

 

[JeanneMN]

Oh, Ona!!!
As if I didn't know!
It's simply magical! I wish I could meet your magical creatures! They enrich every garden and live among us with their Beauty and magic.

Here is a little impression from my garden. The fairy princess Annike, top left, and her best friend Adrian button left are the youngest settlers in my garden. They are still a bit shy. But at night I see them scurrying around the garden as they inspect and repair the little bird's nests. Or they help the frogs through difficult terrain to the next pond.
I'll introduce you to more of my Garden friends shortly. I'm packing, we're going on vacation.

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OMG, the long-beaked birds and those 2 characters in the lower right look like they came directly from Wallace & Gromits garden.

 

[AK_Tracy]

OMG, the long-beaked birds and those 2 characters in the lower right look like they came directly from Wallace & Gromits garden.

You're so right!!! I missed that but you are right!!!!

 

[JeanneMN]

You're so right!!! I missed that but you are right!!!!

I LOVE Wallace & Gromit & Shaun the Sheep

 

[AK_Tracy]

I LOVE Wallace & Gromit & Shaun the Sheep

YES they are so funny!!!!! Cheese Gromit!

 

[A-M]

I found the layout I created some years ago about the Fairy Garden we had in the backyard of our last home and I also came across a layout about the grandchildren's chickens who really enjoyed the Fairy Garden when we looked after them for some months. The photo of the garden has been altered with a Topaz filter to make it look like a painting and of course the fairies, mushrooms, door to their home were added digitally.

 

[Jam-on-toast]

What a fun thread... I love seeing other people's gardens... We also have a couple of creatures at the entrance... they don't have a name, but are super fun... and one even features in my recent layout...

 

[MariJ]

What a great way to honor your friend and deal with your grief. Wonderful story, other than fairies disappearing, maybe they took some of your garden magic to Jody?

Well, actually maybe you are right, that's a nice way to think of it. Jody's husband in Australia and I always say as it gets colder here, my fairies leave and go off to Australia where it's warming up. And vice versa.

 

[MariJ]

Anne Marie I love your layouts and don't recall seeing them before. Your fairy garden is so pretty and so is your photo treatment, it does look like a watercolor painting. I remember that collection well and have used it often.
The chickens in the garden are so funny! Your photos are great and I laughed seeing them peek through the greenery, your journaling is awesome. You had natural weed-killers! I really liked seeing both of these pages, thanks for posting them. @A-M

 

[Cherylndesigns]

What a great thread. I had a Buddha but he wasn't cold proofed and his paint peeled off. My granddaughter is trying to fix him. I have lots of garden pictures, but no critters, gnomes, fairies, etc. I'm loving all of your beautiful pictures.

 

[twinsmomflor]

I dont have any. But all those photos are gorgeous

 

[Susan - s3js]

I LOVE your garden, Ona! I don't have any here - yet. It will depend on whether my Dad will allow it. But I do have a work box crammed full of miniature garden stuff and will make a terrarium in my room once the bathroom renovation is done and I can get all the dust and debris under control.